About May Globus
Vancouver City Editor May Globus is obsessed with the sartorial and all that surrounds it: art, design, culture, music and film. Oh, and she really likes writing about it, too. A left coast girl at heart, her Sweetspot finds just might show why the westside really is the best side.
Hello, T.O.!
the view from vancity Vancouver
(Jul.13.09)
Tonight marked a first for me, namely my first ever trip out east.
Hello, Toronto.
I'll admit with pride that I'm a west coast girl through and through. Sure, I love what the bigger cities have to offer: lounges and bars opened past 3am, the long city blocks, the incomparable shopping, the choice museums, the crush of people. As Air Canada's flight AC1166 circled over this vast city -- in comparison to Vancouver, that is -- I stretched out in my exit aisle window seat and smugly noted the lack of mountain ranges, rolling knolls, Douglas firs and Pacific Northwest foliage associated with the left coast that I grew up loving. 
All was flat below, but it allowed for the amazingly altitudinous downtown buildings to jut out into a brilliant red, sunset-tinged sky. And though I had never seen the CN Tower before, I couldn't imagine it looking more beautiful than it did in at 9:10pm in tonight's fading light.
Slowly, I began developing a little crush on the T-dot.
A jovial Lebanese fellow by the name of Nicholas chauffeured me (and my bright, flowered Roxy suitcase) from the airport to the expansive freeway (that reminded me of the L.A. kind, minus the dirt and trash) and finally to my hotel (all while pointing out the numerous hospitals and a government building), where Jeff and Alex at hotel reception provided quite the service and welcome. The boys in the bar poured me a most delicious cocktail called Ernestine's Elixir, which happened to have the perfect amount of lychee and liquor to ever hit my drink palette and went famously along with a plate of dusted potatoes and chorizo.
I'd say my first east coast trip is off to an excellent start.
For now, I'm ready to slip into my king-size at the InterContinental -- after happening to meet fellow Cal Gal city editor Michaelle LeManne via lobby run-in -- and count some sheep before our full day ahead at our Toronto headquarters.
Can't wait to see what daylight in this city brings.
And I just might already be falling in love.